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After the analysis of the materials, the Rosselkhoznadzor took a decision to resume import of poultry meat from this plant from September 8, 2010.

Only products manufactured at this plant not earlier than August 10, 2010 will be allowed for import to the Russian Federation.

According to the preliminary results of the inspection, the Rosselkhoznadzor confirmed the approval of Plant No. DE-NI 10165 EG for export of pork and Plant No. DE-SN 30032 EG for export of poultry meat to Russia, and lifted temporary restrictions previously imposed on import of meat products from Plants No. DE BY 20059 EG and DE ES (EZ) 1061 EG from September 07, 2010.

In addition, import of products from two milk-processing plant and two meat-processing plants of Germany where violations of the Russian requirements were detected in the course of the inspection will be temporarily restricted starting from September 13, 2010.

Import of meat from six German plants to the Russian Federation was banned by the same reason.

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115 decisions have been made.

Legal persons have received 114 permits.

Natural persons have received 1 permit.

The permits have been issued for import of consignments under surveillance from the following countries: Germany – 14, Spain – 10, USA – 10, Brazil – 9, Denmark – 8, Austria – 8, France – 7, Paraguay – 6, Poland – 6, Argentina – 4, Australia – 4, Belgium – 4, Netherlands – 4, Italy – 4, Sweden – 4, Ukraine – 2, Lithuania – 2, Hungary – 2, Ireland – 2,Uruguay – 2, Bulgaria – 1, Mexico – 1, Canada – 1.

The permits have been automatically issued for the following products of animal origin: mutton, beef, poultry meat, pork, beef offals, poultry offals, pork offals.

No defects have been detected in the work of Argus for the period 36-100 hours.

Dear colleagues,
It’s high time to occupy ourselves with the development of the fourth information system CERBERUS planned by the Rosselkhoznadzor.

Cerberus is designated for support of work of state veterinary officers in the Russian Federation in the field of surveillance and other legally significant actions.

The tasks that should be fulfilled by the launch of Cerberus include the following:

• algorithmization, regulation and automation of work of state veterinary officers,
• assurance of the lawfulness and transparency of the implemented surveillance actions,
• assurance of understanding of actions of state veterinary officers by natural and legal persons performing activities under state veterinary surveillance,
• automation of provision of information about surveillance activities in the sphere of state veterinary surveillance,
• automation of provision of information to the authorities concerned, natural and legal persons about plans, course and results of the surveillance actions,
• integration of the work of Federal surveillance bodies and surveillance bodies of the RF Subjects,
• assurance of information support for the work of state veterinary officers,
• reduction of document circulation in the sphere of veterinary surveillance,
• assurance of completion of surveillance and other relevant legally significant actions.

Cerberus, like Vesta cannot be created as a single step development as it is too complicated and huge (by the volume of work) and should to a wide extent represent a product of the so called “folk art” as the officers that will use it further will make decisions about its interface and functions themselves.

Cerberus, like Vesta will possibly be primarily created as a state VETERINARY surveillance instrument and further will evolve towards universalization and will provide phytosanitary surveillance and other kinds of surveillance within the competence of the Rosselkhoznadzor. But these all are still to come. And now we need to create a program engine and the interfaces, information circulation systems, and a reporting system. It is easier and faster to be done when it is only in the framework of veterinary surveillance.

Taking all these into consideration, Heads of the Territorial Administrations of the Rosselkhoznadzor and the Veterinary Offices of the Subjects of the Russian Federation, as well as the state veterinary officers that consider themselves specialists in surveillance activity performance, who have an experience in its implementation and a wish to take part in this work should submit their proposals on the formation of a working group for the development of Cerberus.

According to the preliminary results of the inspection, the Rosselkhoznadzor confirmed the approval of Plant No. 10.05227/М for export of beef and Plant No. 15.04925/ТО for export of milk products to Russia, added three plants (10.13495/GE, 10.01122/М and 15.05276/TO) to the list of plants approved for export of their products (beef, pork and milk products, correspondingly) to the Russian Federation, and lifted temporary restrictions imposed on import of pork from Plant No. 10.10797/МА from 04.09.2010.

In addition, import of products from one milk-processing plant and two meat-processing plants of Spain where violations of the Russian requirements were detected in the course of the inspection will be temporarily restricted starting from September 10, 2010.

By the same reason, import from three meat processing plants (10.04906/О, 10.20709/Н and 10.04103/GE) to the Russian Federation was banned.

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Plant Super Frost Sjælland A/S was excluded from the list late September 2009 due to the violations of the Russian veterinary and sanitary requirements and norms.

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In February 2010 plant of this firm (No. DE-TH-EV 1283 EG) was included into the mentioned list at the request and under the responsibility of the veterinary service of Germany. Alongside with this in June 2010 the plant administration refused to allow the Rosselkhoznadzor into the plant for a planned inspection aimed at checking the fulfillment of Russian veterinary-sanitary norms and requirements. The refusal was explained by the lack of interest of the plant in exporting their products to the Russian market.

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Nikolay Vlasov informed the Canadian delegation about the changes in registration of consignments under surveillance due to the establishment of the Customs Union.

It was decided to continue the discussion of technical issues, particularly those concerning the harmonization of veterinary certificates during panel sessions of Russian-Canadian working party that consists of the Rosselkhoznadzor and the Canadian veterinary service specialists.

The following has been done for the 36 hours of automated work of the system:

71 decisions have been made.

Legal persons have received 70 permits.

Natural persons have received 1 permit.

The permits have been issued for import of consignments under surveillance from the following countries: Germany – 7, Brazil – 6, Spain – 5, Poland – 5, Austria – 5, France – 5, Denmark – 4, Netherlands – 4, Italy – 4, Australia – 4, Sweden – 4, Paraguay – 4, Belgium – 3, Ukraine – 2, Lithuania – 2, USA – 2, Argentina – 2, Uruguay – 1, Ireland – 1, Hungary – 1.

The permits have been automatically issued for the following products of animal origin: mutton, beef, poultry meat, pork, beef offals, poultry offals, pork offals.

1 defect has been detected in the Argus algorithm for consideration of applications for import of beef. The defect is not crucial. It will be removed without interruption of work.

N.Vlasov

The restrictions had been imposed in May 2010 due to detection of antibiotics and Salmonella in products from these plants.

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The owner of the plant will be given a memorable certificate. The use of "Argus" in a fully automatic mode enables to accelerate the procedure of application consideration and make it transparent.

In addition, temporary restrictions on import of animal products from three meat-processing plants and two milk-processing plants of France where violations of the Russian requirements were detected in the course of inspection will be imposed from 3.09.2010.

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Products of these plants produced not earlier than 30 August this year may be approved for export to the Russian Federation.

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